Word: emphasising
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Joe does the heavy punditing for the team, but the quiet Stewart has the reputation of being a better legman. Nevertheless, the brother act performs smoothly. "We have no fights on policy," says Joe. "Our arguments are on points of emphasis-and on how far out on a limb we...
Main reason behind the move is the recent high number of scholarship students who have fallen below Group Three standing in their first year. "Many times a C-plus instead of a B-minus has meant a boy cannot continue in College, just because he has fallen into some hard...
"We Americans," Sills once said, "have put too much emphasis on the log and not enough on Mark Hopkins. Excellent teaching in wooden halls is much better than wooden teaching in marble halls."
The desire to learn is rather than the ability. The emphasis at Harvard and at almost all other American colleges is on results--i.e., marks. The student who gets passing marks is no one's concern but his own, regardless of what kind of an education he is getting. And...
Emphasis on marks, on performance up to a rigid, narrow, easily scaleable standard is emphasis on superficiality. With that superficiality an undergraduate can go astonishingly far in Harvard College without knowing what he is missing: for there are good things in the Yard to be gleaned by those who would...